But God will not the less preserve his Word, and their haughtiness shall come to an end.
The directions were obeyed; and Wyatt's English haughtiness was likely to have fulfilled them to the letter.
He answered haughtiness by haughtiness: and he left his fate to the chances of fortune, careless what it might be, if only he could accomplish his work while life and power remained to him.
They would naturally be jealous of a second order, whom in their haughtiness they held much beneath them, yet by whom they might be outnumbered in those councils where they had bearded the king.
I knew she could not rest with that prickle rankling in her mind,' he continued inwardly; 'now her haughtiness shall dance to my piping and pay for her insolence.
Her eyes, so full of haughtiness and will, encountering the calm gaze of the Pretorian, sank like a timid child's, shaded beneath a deep sweeping fringe of eyelashes.
He had paid the penalty of faults not his own, of the haughtiness and ambition of some of his predecessors, of the dissoluteness and baseness of others.
In true dignity of character, in private and public virtue, it may seem absurd to institute any comparison between them; but they had the same haughtiness and vehemence of temper.
Then the princess believed that he really was a swineherd, and tended the herd with him, and thought to herself, "I have deserved this for my haughtiness and pride.
Fitzpiers inferred that Giles disliked Miss Melbury because of some haughtiness in her bearing towards him, and had, on that account, withheld her name.
St. John, strong in his feelings as he was deep in his intellect, had represented their conduct in such terms that the English Parliament received them with a cool haughtiness the counterpart of their own in the late attempt at treaty.
The new-comers advanced slowly towards the party, and Mr. Villiers, having bowed with much haughtiness to Randulph, gracefully saluted the rest of the company.
The kind tone of this answer, the sweet voice, the gentle manner, the absence of any accent of haughtiness or displeasure, took the girl completely by surprise, and she burst into tears.
For the Queen on these occasions by no means maintained a royal reserve, for all the haughtiness in her nature.
Will's mother had told her how lightly their vows lay on Italian wives; and she felt how Will's fair English face, with its beauty and its haughtiness and its courageousness, must have appealed to such women.
The Queen turned on him with the haughtiness that came so naturally to the daughter of Maria Theresa: "The Prince seems to know Resina better than I should have expected.
The junior lieutenants, on the other hand, disliked his haughtiness and self-assurance, though they all of them saw that he had corresponding courage.
She was more beloved in her country than was his mother, whom yet he adored, in hers; she had more tact, less fear, less haughtiness also towards the crowd.
She had wanted to suppress every germ, with her father's coldness and the day's dispassionately proud haughtiness she had been willing to stifle every impulse toward love, every longing for self avowal.
This haughtiness gave pain not only to the senate, but the people, who thought the contempt of that body reflected dishonor upon the whole Commonwealth; for all who could decently withdraw went off greatly dejected.
In the mean while the haughtiness of her demeanor corresponded with the splendid anticipations in which she indulged.
I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down.
Immediately after the awful catastrophe Morris wrote to a friend: "The voracity of the court, the haughtiness of the nobles, the sensuality of the church, have met their punishment in the road of their transgressions.
The haughtiness of the Poles irritated our convicts.
Luka often quarrelled with him in a neighbourly way, and treated him with a haughtiness which, thanks to his good-nature, Kobylin did not notice in the least.
But if pride and haughtinesspossess her soul, and she prefers the company of courtiers and soldiers to that of her own people, and the life of camps to the life of home, then I wash my hands of her.
Then my fear left and great joy came; perhaps even some pride and haughtiness of spirit in that I had been chosen for such a task.
He seemed neither irritated nor dejected; but his eyes expressed a haughtiness more than usually disdainful, and a self-reliance full of contempt.
His eyes expressed that cold resolution of a sacrifice freely made, and a certain haughtiness which might be taken for disdain, but which expressed the noble resentment of an injured man.
Their warm English hearts could not be satisfied till they had so repaired the sin of their previous haughtiness and mockery.
If it was deeply humiliating to the pride of the former to serve under an imperial subject, the idea of imposing laws on so imperious a spirit flattered in the same degree the haughtiness of Wallenstein.
If the pressure of circumstances compelled the Emperor to grant these demands, it was more than a mere feeling of haughtiness and desire of revenge which induced the duke to make them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "haughtiness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
